ABSTRACT
He goes on to emphasize how significant cricket, and especially successful competition at the international level, has been for the definition of a West Indian consciousness.
This study explores the role of cricket in West Indian society and looks at it as a metaphor for West Indian conceptualizations of who they are and how they position themselves in a globalized world.2 It also examines another central Caribbean performance form, Trinidadian calypso. Calypso has long been an important medium of popular expression in Trinidad and the eastern Caribbean, carrying messages of love and hate, colonial and global politics, local scandal, and the fortunes of the West Indies cricket team. Three calypsos are analysed, written at different periods, which take cricket as their subject. In a broad sense, this study examines how culture and social history are reflected in these two modes of popular expression.
